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Weekly reads: CAR-T cell good news, Califf fight, stem cells on lymph

February 5, 2022 / By / 1 Comment
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Not everything in biomedical science is a ground-breaking discovery or clinical game-changer, but CAR-T cell technology is a combination of both. CAR-T cell good news We have such good news in this new pub on long-term benefits: Decade-long leukaemia remissions with persistence of CD4+ CAR T cells, Nature. Another recent CAR-T cell article, this one in Science, …

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Recommended reads: senolytics, cow iPS cells, big CIRM royalty

January 29, 2022 / By / 1 Comment
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When we hear the word senile we might think stereotypically of an older person who has cognitive impairment, but some argue that senility can apply to cells too as they age and that such cells can be targeted by drugs called senolytics. Unfortunately, the supplements industry has picked up on this idea to sell iffy …

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Weekly reads: aging, CRISPR delivery, hair, oocytes, paralysis

January 22, 2022 / By / Leave a Comment
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The big news of the week was the launch of Altos labs and their ambitious plan to tackle aging through cell therapies. Altos has recruited a large number of top cell biologists away from academia. That team plus top biotech execs and a $3B war chest make Altos one to watch in coming years. I …

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Weekly science reads: senescence, alt CRISPR, sickle cell update

January 9, 2022 / By / 1 Comment
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Is 2022 going to be any better than 2020 or 2021 when it comes to things in general or for biomedical science? Related to the pandemic? It’s too soon to say but if I had to guess right now I’d venture an optimistic view that overall it’s going to be somewhat better by the end …

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Weekly stem cell reads: COVID kidney, FDA letter, H3.3, EO Wilson

January 1, 2022 / By / Leave a Comment
EO Wilson

Happy New Year and get ready for another 364 more days of stem cell excitement and craziness in 2022. In the next day or two I’ll post my predictions for this new year. Recommended reads EO Wilson obit by Carl Zimmer in NYT. Who’s the next EO Wilson or someone like him with such big impact these …

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Top stem cell stories of 2021: COVID, diabetes, human embryos, clinics in court

December 30, 2021 / By / 6 Comments
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The past year was all over the place for the stem cell and regenerative medicine field. As you can see in my scoring of my 21 predictions for 2021, quite a few things were surprises in terms of what did and didn’t happen. Here’s an overview of the top stories of the year in our …

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Weekly reads: grad student life, cell barcoding, diabetes trial, more

December 4, 2021 / By / 1 Comment
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Part of being a grad student is dealing with technologies related to your projects and their limitations. Sometimes I feel old when I remember the way we used to have to do things in the lab. As a grad student, I manually poured, ran, and read giant sequencing gels. Back then, gene synthesis of a …

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Recommended reads: a tale of human tails, heart reprogramming, pericytes, microglia

August 18, 2022 / By / Leave a Comment
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A piece on human tails and how we lost them caught my eye so I’ll start my weekly reads with that. This week I had the fewest Zoom meetings in ages, which allowed me to get more work done in my own lab and more reading. How about that? I even had some in-person meetings …

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Weekly reads: vision, MyoD, liver regen, more

September 5, 2021 / By / 2 Comments
fish-eyes-from-stem-cells, stem cells for vision

I love stem cell research but experiments that have practical possible future applications in medicine like for vision loss are especially interesting to me. On the other hand basic research on core transcription factor mechanisms like by MyoD also really grab me. We cover some of this stuff and other ground in today’s recommended reads. …

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